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Originally Posted by Diamondhitch
You missed the point entirely
Think of it in another way. Lets say it takes 500 hamburgers/year to keep you alive. You have 10,000 hamburgers at your disposal. You burn 500 hamburgers and have to throw them away. You will still be completely unaffected.
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10,000 less 500 is a 5%
decline in usable habitat. Any decline in habitat pretty much guarantees that their will in future be less animals than the land could support without the reduction (it doesn't have to be a 100% decline), particularly given how long it takes to become usable for a species like caribou. My larger point was that with a struggling, somewhat sensitive species like caribou, every little bit helps. I never implied that this fire, even if it engulfed a sizable fraction of the Willmore, would spell the end of caribou -- but it would definitely affect their long-term prospects of recovering to a sustainable population.